Adjusting tone and contrast

The next step in a typical photo-correction workflow, after tackling white…balance, as covered in the last movie, is to adjust tonal values.…In this movie, we'll take a look at the four tonal controls in the Basic panel…that you'll use most often.…Those are Exposure, Blacks, Brightness, and Contrast.…If your Histogram panel isn't open, go ahead and click on its panel header to open it.…I'll quickly review what a histogram is for those of you who aren't sure, because…it will help you when you're making tonal adjustments.…A histogram is a bar chart that represents the distribution of tonal values in an image.…

The far-right side of the bar chart represents highlights,…the far-left side represents shadows, and the areas in between…represent midtones.…The tones in the selected photo are represented on this chart by these vertical bars.…Now, these bars are squeezed together, so they look like mounds rather…than individual bars.…The height of a bar in this mound represents the relative frequency of the…

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5/6/2011

In this course, Jan Kabili provides an approachable introduction to organizing, editing, and sharing photos in Lightroom. The course offers a quick-start approach to the basics, from importing photos from a camera or a hard drive, to managing photos in the Library module, to improving photos by adjusting exposure, recovering details from highlights and shadows, sharpening, and more. Jan also includes a look at popular Lightroom features for sharing photos: exporting, printing, and creating slideshows.

Topics include:

Understanding Lightroom catalogs

Importing photos from multiple sources

Organizing photos with ratings, keywords, and collections

Working with virtual copies

Making basic corrections to photo color and tone

Making local photo edits with the Adjustment Brush and Graduated Filter tools